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The 32-year-old Golden Globe-winning actress, who plays a young Queen Elizabeth in the Netflix phenomenon, admitted that a scene from the royal couple’s wedding night ended up on the cutting room floor.

Speaking to media including Express.co.uk at the BFI & Radio Times Festival in London yesterday, she said: “My favourite scene with Matt Smith was never in the programme, unfortunately. That was our wedding night, that’s all I’ll say!"

The star cheekily added with a laugh: “It was absolutely hilarious for all the wrong reasons.”

My favourite scene with Matt Smith was never in the programme, unfortunately

Claire Foy

Reflecting leaving the role, which has won her numerous and accolades and propelled her into the spotlight, she said: “I’m substituted. I’m on the bench… I’m not on the bench. I’m just on a different team, I’m unemployed. We’re gone.”

Claire continued: “We always knew – that’s not a shock – when we signed up to it and also, not to be funny, a real plus. As an actor, there’s nothing worse than the sound of seven years.

“I’m sure to some people it sounds amazing. But to us it sounds like seven years of playing the same person and this is a tough job. It’s a good nine months – and that’s a lot of your life you sign over to it.

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The Crown star Claire Foy at the BFI and Radio Times Festival in London

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